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Menton Lemon Festival 2015: in pictures

The Spanish have La Tomatina
, a tomato-throwing festival, and La Raima, in Valencia, where grapes are lobbed with abandon. And in Italy, each February sees the throwing of 500 tons of oranges over three days in the town of Ivrea, in the Piedmont region of northern Italy. Naturally, things are more sophisticated on the French Riviera. The town of Menton, once frequented by Queen Victoria, Aubrey Beardsley and Katherine Mansfield
, holds its own "Fête du Citron" each year, with this year's celebrations taking place from February 14 to March 4. By Lizzie Porter -- Reader offer: tour the south of France with our experts on a three-night tour examining the work of Matisse, Picasso and Chagall on the Côte d'Azur. Alistair Sooke, The Telegraph's art critic, will join this tour that takes in the Chapel of the Rosary and Chateau Grimaldi. For more information, visit: travelshop.telegraph.co.uk